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THE BOOK OF<br/>
<span class=large>JUDGES</span>
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CHAPTER 13
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Israel in Philistine bondage for forty years—An angel comes to Manoah’s wife and promises a son who shall begin to deliver Israel—The angel comes again; he ascends in a flame from the altar—Samson is born, and the Spirit of the Lord moves upon him.
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And</span> the children of Israel did <sup>a</sup><a href="judg/13/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="Mosiah 1: 17; Hel. 12: 3 (2-3).">evil</a> again in the sight of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; and the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> delivered them into the <sup>b</sup><a href="judg/13/1b" mark="b" type="A" title="1 Sam. 4: 9.">hand</a> of the Philistines forty years.
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&#182; And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name <i>was</i> Manoah; and his wife <i>was</i> barren, and bare not.
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And the <sup>a</sup><a href="judg/13/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Moro. 7: 29 (29-32).">angel</a> of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold now, thou <i>art</i> <sup>b</sup><a href="judg/13/3b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Barrenness.">barren</a>, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son.
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Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and <sup>a</sup><a href="judg/13/4a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Word of Wisdom.">drink</a> not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any <sup>b</sup><a href="judg/13/4b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Uncleanness.">unclean</a> <i>thing:</i>
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For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no <sup>a</sup><a href="judg/13/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="Num. 6: 5 (1-8); Judg. 16: 17; 1 Sam. 1: 11.">razor</a> shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to <sup>b</sup><a href="judg/13/5b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Deliverance.">deliver</a> Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.
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&#182; Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came unto me, and his countenance <i>was</i> like the countenance of an <sup>a</sup><a href="judg/13/6a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Angels.">angel</a> of God, very terrible: but I asked him not whence he <i>was,</i> neither told he me his name:
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But he said unto me, Behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean <i>thing:</i> for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his death.
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Then Manoah intreated the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and said, O my Lord, let the man of God which thou didst send come again unto us, and teach us what we shall do unto the child that shall be born.
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And God hearkened to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of God came again unto the woman as she sat in the field: but Manoah her husband <i>was</i> not with her.
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And the woman made haste, and ran, and shewed her husband, and said unto him, Behold, the man hath appeared unto me, that came unto me the <i>other</i> day.
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And Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said unto him, <i>Art</i> thou the man that spakest unto the woman?  And he said, I <i>am.</i>
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And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass.  How shall we order the child, and <i>how</i> shall we do unto him?
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And the angel of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> said unto Manoah, Of all that I said unto the woman let her beware.
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She may not eat of any <i>thing</i> that cometh of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean <i>thing:</i> all that I commanded her let her observe.
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&#182; And Manoah said unto the angel of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, I pray thee, let us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid for thee.
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And the angel of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> said unto Manoah, Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offer a burnt offering, thou must offer it unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.  For Manoah knew not that he <i>was</i> an angel of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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And Manoah said unto the angel of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, What <i>is</i> thy name, that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honour?
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And the angel of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> said unto him, Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it <i>is</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="judg/13/18a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 32: 29.">secret</a>?
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So Manoah took a kid with a <sup>a</sup><a href="judg/13/19a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB gift, or offering; actually this part was made of meal (also v. 23).">meat</a> <sup>b</sup><a href="judg/13/19b" mark="b" type="A" title="Lev. 9: 15 (7-24).">offering</a>, and offered <i>it</i> upon a rock unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>: and <i>the angel</i> did wondrously; and Manoah and his wife looked on.
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For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> ascended in the flame of the altar.  And Manoah and his wife looked on <i>it,</i> and fell on their faces to the ground.
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But the angel of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> did no more appear to Manoah and to his wife.  Then Manoah knew that he <i>was</i> an angel of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely die, because we have <sup>a</sup><a href="judg/13/22a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG God, Privilege of Seeing.">seen</a> God.
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But his wife said unto him, If the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he have shewed us all these <i>things,</i> nor would as at this time have told us <i>such things</i> as these.
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&#182; And the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson: and the child grew, and the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> blessed him.
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And the Spirit of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.
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